Dramatherapy offers a safe space where one can be and do anything possible and impossible. Playing theatre means to be HERE and NOW – with your whole body: smelling, tasting, hearing, sensing. In theatre, you don’t have to be anything and you may become everything. It is the space where the power of self-healing that lives in every human can unfold by playing the unseen, the unheard and the unknown . . .
Dramatherapy is a recognized method of creative therapy in Germany. I have studied dramatherapy at the „Institut für Theatertherapie“ ITT Berlin and am a certified dramatherapist of the German Association for Dramatherapy DGfT e.V.. The latter states:
Dramatherapy „fruitfully connects the inherent healing roots of theatre and the methods and techniques of modern psycho- and social therapies. As an action-oriented and present-related form of therapy, dramatherapy focuses on creative processes enabling access to previously hidden resources. Dramatherapy utilizes stories, myths, movement, plays, scripts, puppetry, masks or improvised scenes as a therapeutic medium. Role-playing as well as interacting in a variety of scenarios within the dramatic reality opens up access to creative potential and gives new insights and perspectives to be tested and integrated into one’s own life outside of therapy.“
I currently offer dramatherapy sessions at my studio in Berlin – Kreuzberg. I am particularly interested in researching the use of rasa (emotions) and embodiment of Indian Dancetheatre for the context of dramatherapy.